The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 716 The Birth of Iron Man

August 2004, 8, was a very commemorative day. For the Chinese people, they began to learn to stand up and live.

And for the world, one of the greatest cinematic brands of all time was born.

August 2004, 8 was the day when the Marvel movie "Iron Man" premiered. After two full years of preparation and shooting, this Marvel and Marvel Pictures was acquired by Boss Huang. 1 movie, it is finally time to meet the global audience.

But to be honest, the first time "Iron Man" was released, it did not receive the attention of the audience. Before the film was screened, there was only news that the film was about to be released. Many media people and film critics , began to bad-mouth Iron Man in the newspapers, for a few reasons.

What the 21st century is no longer the world of superhero movies.

The reason why Marvel wants to survive is to continue to polish their comic world instead of running to make movies.

Why don't you fool the audience with military rations from 50 years ago, the audience doesn't like this at all!
All in all, the whole network is unanimously bad-mouthing, and it seems that no one is optimistic about this brand new superhero movie launched by Marvel Pictures.

This is not to say that someone is sniping Marvel Studios and Boss Huang's investment in the United States behind his back, but that the entire Hollywood is not optimistic about superhero movies at this time.

The earliest superhero movie was born very early. If the standard is relaxed, then "Zorro the Ranger" in 1920 is the first superhero movie in history.

If the standard is narrowed, then "Captain Marvel" in 1941 is the first superhero movie in history.

It has been 2004 years since 63. It can be seen that superhero movies have a very long history in the history of world movies.

The pinnacle of superhero movies came from the 70s and 80s. This pinnacle came from the movie Superman, and then the movie Batman came online, pushing the entire superhero movie to its peak.

Well, you may have noticed that both Superman and Batman are from the DC movie universe, and there seems to be no superheroes from Marvel.

In fact, Marvel's superheroes also filmed many superhero movies during this period, because superheroes were indeed the most popular movie subject at that time, and it can be said that they made a popular movie.

As long as you can get the copyright of superheroes, which were well-known in comics at the time, and then make a decent movie, you will definitely be able to make a lot of money without any possibility of failure. It is the same formula as 1+1+1=3, there will be no mistakes.

It’s just that this changed in the 90s. I don’t know if the audience was completely tired of superhero movies. The box office of several superhero movies released in the early 90s was completely cold.

In fact, as early as 1987, as the boss of superhero movies, the total box office of the fourth Superman film "Superman: Battle of Nuclear Man" in the world was only 1 million US dollars, and his investment cost reached 568 , $1 million.

You might say that it's normal for a movie to lose money, and this movie didn't lose much, that is, it lost more than $100 million.

But you have to know that when the first Superman movie was released, and in 1, its total box office reached an astonishing $1978 million, which is a full 3 times what it is now.

After that, the second film was $2 million, and the third film was $1.2 million. From this curve, it can also be seen how the audience's interest in superhero movies has declined.

After that, the Batman movies were basically in the same situation. The attitude shown by the audience throughout the 90s was that they had completely lost interest in superhero movies. fear.

Among them, the few superhero movies that were released and produced with the courage to bite the bullet, basically all lost money.

The only exception is Spider-Man released in 2002, which created an astonishing 8.2 million US dollars in the world, so many people thought that superhero movies were about to start to recover. This is an obvious signal.

However, the next few superhero movies lost all their money, so the changes brought about by Spider-Man were quickly considered by professionals to be just an accident, which did not represent the truth. Superhero movies are still Fallen.

This also cannot see why the critics have been singing the bad news about Iron Man. After all, this is still a superhero who has never been on the big screen. Although he is one of the first few superheroes born in the Marvel Universe, but He never made his own movie.

And now, his exclusive personal movie is going to be launched. It is almost impossible for you to expect a good review from the film critics. Everything requires Iron Man's own achievements to prove himself.

However, although August 8st is the premiere, it should actually be called an on-demand screening, because August 1st is a Sunday. If it starts to be released on a large scale on this day, the box office results in the first week will undoubtedly be extremely bad.

For the sake of performance, generally speaking, blockbuster movies are released on Friday, because from this day onwards, it enters the state of the weekend, and a large number of audiences flock to the cinema, which is more conducive to creating an amazing premiere box office result.

But how to attract audiences to the cinema on Friday?

Then the best way is to hold an on-demand screening, a few days in advance to professional industry insiders, critics, writers, or some lucky audiences, etc., open the movie to watch in advance, and let them give comments after watching the movie At the same time, these professionals will also publish their own film review articles in the media or newspapers.

If it can get high ratings from film critics, it will naturally attract many passers-by viewers to watch.

So on August 2004, 8, Iron Man directly opened the on-demand screening, and 1 movies were screened in 10 movie theaters across the United States. After that, there will be 10 movie screenings every day, so that all professionals can watch in advance See this movie, and then give your own evaluation on the newspaper.

And the screening held at the Huaxia Theater in New York on August 8st is undoubtedly the most important one, because on this day, all the leading actors of the movie, as well as Boss Huang himself, will appear in the movie theater to give the movie a screening. Propaganda and encouragement, so those who came to participate at the same time were all well-known media professionals and film critics who received special invitations. Their evaluations are extremely important for the evaluation and reputation of the entire film.

Although the premiere was as lively as it was, it didn't actually receive much attention from the news media.

First of all, the movie Iron Man is not a popular movie. He doesn't have any excellent predecessors, and he doesn't have any big directors and famous actors.

In the whole movie, there are no other famous actors except the leading actor Qiangpu. They are all unknown newcomers or unknown old actors.

Among them, the second most famous person is probably Stan Lee who came to play a cameo. If you expect this movie to attract reporters with its lineup, then you must be thinking too much.

After careful calculation, the most important thing among them is probably to use the Huaxia Theater, the most famous and most expensive venue dedicated to Oscars in the United States, to hold the movie premiere.

That's right, the most famous movie theater in the United States is called Huaxia Theater, and he really called it by this name.

Of course, the premiere ceremony must be lively, but after all, it is still up to the movie itself to speak.

At 8:1 pm on August 10st, the Huaxia Grand Theater completely turned off the lights, and then the movie curtain lit up, and the story of Iron Man officially began. A handsome and arrogant middle-aged man appeared directly on the stage. He seemed to be attending a press conference and was working hard. Advertise a new product that he invented.

This is a kind of weapon, a powerful laser weapon, functioned by the energy core independently invented and created by him, capable of independently attacking extremely large energy sources, and even launching huge laser cannons.

Such a powerful weapon immediately caused a burst of screams from the reporters on the scene, but soon some reporters questioned him, asking him if he had considered what kind of disaster he would bring to the world when he developed such a weapon.

"A weapon is just a tool. The problem lies with the person who uses the tool, not the weapon itself!" The young man said to the reporter indifferently, "I think the greatest invention in the world is nuclear weapons. You see, nuclear weapons are so It is powerful, but it did not cause any harm, on the contrary, it maintained world peace, so that there will no longer be huge wars between major powers!"

"So my mission is to invent more powerful weapons, and then let the whole world have the same weapons, so that the world will be safer!"

This statement sounds a bit nonsense, but it seems to have a lot of truth. It made the questioner blow his beard and stare angrily, but it also attracted the flashlights of countless reporters. Under the attention of the flashlights, this young man seemed so dazzling and incredible. A generation.

Then the camera turned, and the young man ran to Afghanistan to test his new weapon. As a result, no matter how arrogant he was in front of reporters, he was equally vulnerable in front of militants.

When a missile came down, the entire convoy was turned into ruins. Although the young man survived by luck, he became a prisoner. If he didn't have a very high status, he might have been beaten to death by the militants at that time.

Later, he was imprisoned in a military industrial base of the militants, responsible for producing all kinds of weapons for the militants, and he also tasted all kinds of pain brought about by the war.

So from an original war and weapons fanatic, he evolved into a pacifist.

Then, in order to heal his injuries, he implanted the self-developed energy that he carried with him into his chest, and then built himself a crude steel armor.

Thus, Iron Man was born

(End of this chapter)